Publications & Documents

Unemployment Rates, OECD - Updated: April 2021

Marginal fall in OECD unemployment rate in February 2021, to 6.7%, 1.4 percentage points above its pre-pandemic level

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 6 April 2021

OECD annual inflation picks up to 1.7% in February 2021

Statistical Insights

The Statistical Insights is a series of articles, launched in 2016, that highlights indicators that tend to be less visible than standard headline indicators, but that provide interesting evidence for analysis ‌and policy making in some areas.

Statistical Insights: The OECD Consumer Barometer

What consumer sentiment choices say in times of crisis - Since March 2020, the devastating effects of COVID-19 have undeniably marked consumers’ behaviour and significantly affecting their professional and social lives. The OECD has developed a new tool, the OECD Consumer Barometer that exploits and visualises consumer confidence data.

The OECD Consumer Barometer

The OECD has developed a new tool, the OECD Consumer Barometer that further exploits and visualises consumer confidence data. The indicator, expressed as the monthly growth rate of the normalised consumer confidence indicator (CCI), has been designed with a view to clarity and reactivity in our presentation of measures of consumer sentiment.

Glossary for OECD Composite Leading Indicators and Business & Consumer Tendency Surveys

Glossary of terms for OECD Composite Leading Indicators and Business & Consumer Tendency Surveys

Improving Productivity Measurement Practices

The first report of the APO and OECD explores current practices and challenges in productivity measurement and provides recommendations to National Productivity Organisations (NPOs), National Statistics Offices (NSOs) and other agencies involved in the compilation and analysis of productivity statistics in APO member economies to improve measurement and cross-country comparability.

Towards Improved and Comparable Productivity Statistics - A Set of Recommendations for Statistical Policy

International Trade Pulse, OECD - Updated: March 2021

This note outlines, from a statistical point of view, how international merchandise and services trade performed in 2020, based on detailed statistics for some of the world’s largest traders.

G20 GDP Growth - Fourth quarter of 2020, OECD

G20 GDP continues to grow in the fourth quarter of 2020, although at a slower pace